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...laughs, with much cobwebbed Scooby-Doobery and character comedy — Haddish is enjoyably ripe as a Crescent City psychic, while good-sport chuckles come from Danny DeVito in transparent rainproofs and Jamie Lee...
...Former Met police officer Mallory Dawson moves to the secluded Welsh island of Eldey as night manager of a boutique hotel....
...My grooming and wellbeing gurus are my wife, Erin Lee Smith, who is a make-up artist and the beauty director of ByGeorge in Austin. This comes in very handy....
...In 2019, prime minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is Lee Kuan Yew’s son, warned his fellow citizens that the country was already feeling the impact of this shift. “Our weather is palpably hotter,” he said....
...by Helen Oyeyemi, Picador, RRP£16.99/Riverhead, RRP$27 One of literature’s most fabled foodstuffs lies at the centre of a darkly magical tale that spans three generations: Margot, Harriet and Perdita Lee...
...Back on Teesside, Lee Dickinson, a 47-year-old pipe fitter, has been in and out of work since the Redcar plant closed and said the town was “on its knees”....
...“We’ve seen a flattening of volumes,” said Douglas Dawson, chief executive of Liberty Industries. “We haven’t seen any drastic reduction but haven’t seen the expected growth.”...
...Their juddering, robotic moves brilliantly evoke a sense of dehumanising routine, a feeling amplified by Ryan Dawson Laight’s shredded straitjackets....
...Still, his paper losses are nothing compared to Dawson Holdings — the newspaper distributor that lost him nearly £200,000 when it went into administration in 2009....
...On a sunny day, the kind “when nothing serious could happen”, he arrives at a secluded bit of farmland to meet IRA commander Dawson McCartland and undergo an initiation into the organisation....
...But this pales in comparison next to the monster of Dawson Holdings, the newspaper distributor that collapsed in 2009, taking Lord Lee’s £200,000 investment with it....
...Chief Executive, Alliance Pharmaceuticals Hilary Evans Chief Executive, Alzheimer’s Research UK Jeremy Hughes Chief Executive, Alzheimer’s Society Lee Taylor General Manager, UK, A Menarini Farmaceutica...
...Horrors like Dawson Holdings and HMV – for which I apologise – had just the opposite characteristics....
...I have had three horrors in the last five years: Dawson Holdings, HMV and, currently, Cable & Wireless Worldwide....
...I have benefited from three good takeovers: Smiths News for the rump of Dawson Holdings; Greene King for Capital Pub; and American insurance broker AmWins for THB....
...John Lee is an active private investor, writing about his own investments. He may have a financial interest in any of the companies, securities and trading strategies mentioned....
...Smiths was one of the two beneficiaries of the demise of Dawson Holdings (a painful memory) but I must not cut off my nose to spite my face – hopefully I will recoup some of my Dawson’s loss through Smiths...
...Corporate activity has been particularly beneficial, with two confirmed takeovers: Greene King for Capital Pub and Smiths News for Dawson Holdings....
...John Lee is an active private investor writing about his own investments. He may have a financial interest in any of the companies and trading strategies mentioned....
...John Lee Performance year-to-date: +3.5 per cent I concluded my turn-of-year article as follows: “So roll on 2011....
...Unfortunately, some ghastly falls, such as Dawson Holdings, cancel out many smaller gains....
...It is sad and somewhat bizarre as Dawson was trading nicely up to expectations....
...Having reported a depressing 42 per cent fall in my portfolio last year, I am pleased to say that, to date, 2009 has delivered a 19 per cent gain – in spite of a blow from Dawson Holdings, as its share price...
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